[63] He noted Wuornos as the sole exception. After killing seven men sequentially, Aileen Wuornos earned the ignominious credit of being the first female serial killer from the United States. People were trying to get rich on her name. She claimed initially that all seven men had raped her while she was working as a prostitute but later recanted the claim of self-defense, citing robbery and a desire to leave no witnesses as the reason for murder. She would murder 6 more men, the last one being Walter Jeno Antonio who was found with 4 gunshot wounds nearly a year after the first murder took place on November 19, 1990. As documented by filmmaker Nick Broomfield, Tyria Moore, the arresting police officers, her lawyer, and Arleen Pralle, a self-proclaimed born again Christian who "adopted" Wuornos in prison, had attempted to sell her story to Hollywood or otherwise make a quick buck on their association with the case. She was raped and became pregnant when she was just 14she claimed that her brother was the father of her child. She was found guilty of murdering six of the men; the body of Peter Siems was never found. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J01slNXT3zI, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wuornos.jpg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgsA6Js5B_o, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl8yY1H3oMU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKMXac-X3vA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cjRWJurqDA. But it bore certain resemblances to the previous two discoveries. Interestingly, the man did have a criminal record for rape. On July 4, 1990, Wuornos and Tyria Moore abandoned victim Peter Siems' car after they were involved in an accident. He lived a regular life and passed away at the age of 21 in 1976 as a result of cancer. To Wuornos, men were only good for the quick cash she needed to survive. "[51] While her attorneys argued that she was not mentally competent to make such a request, Wuornos insisted that she knew what she was doing, and a court-appointed panel of psychiatrists agreed. As depicted in Nick Broomfield's"Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer," Aileen Wuornos' final days on Florida's death row were marked with paranoia. Later on, she changed her statements and gave inconsistent accounts of the killings. I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again. It wasn't until I was told that Aileen spent many hours listening to my album Tigerlily while on death row and requested "Carnival" be played at her funeral that I gave permission for the use of the song. She was also featured in an episode of the TV series The New Detectives (season 3, episode 1: "Fatal Compulsion"). But he determined that she also had a biological predisposition for psychopathy. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. "[14][62], FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler briefly mentions Wuornos in his autobiographical history of his 20 years with the FBI. She died on October 9, 2002 in Raiford, Florida, USA. He disappeared after leaving his home near Jupiter, Florida, for New Jersey. WebShe was born February 29th, 1956, to Diane Wuornos and Leo Arthur Pittman. It is unknown if Keith completed school, but from all indications, he remained in Michigan. Wuornos then drove Mallory's car home. "Women do commit multiple murders, of course, but they tend to do so in a spree, and not sequentially as is the pattern with [men].". Once Aileen was arrested for murder, he threw water on her defense narrative, which claimed she suffered abuse at the hands of her adopted father. But thats not all, he was also a convicted child abuser who was sent to prison and ended up hanging himself in his cell on January 30, 1969. However, due to her anti-social behavior, Fell divorced her a few weeks after the wedding. She was arrested at a biker bar named The Last Resort, 14. The pregnancy had embittered an already volatile teenager. [8] On March 14, 1955, Diane gave birth to Aileen's older brother Keith. Her girlfriend helped the police to make her confess, 16. Mallory had been a convicted rapist and Wuornos claimed that he tried to rape her while they were inside his car. The song "Poor Aileen" by Superheaven, which is the final track from the 2015 album Ours Is Chrome, is written about Aileen Wuornos. As for Barry Wuornos, he was technically Aileen's uncle, 12 years older than her, and was less of a friend. In 1961, "it was observed of Mr. Mallory that he possessed strong sociopathic trends". Wuornos also tested positive for Antisocial Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder, the latter which psychologist Harry Krop testified to during her trial, reports UPI. Keith died of natural causes, specifically cancer, at the age of 21. At Wuornos' request, Natalie Merchant's song "Carnival" from her album Tigerlily was played at her funeral: Wuornos spent many hours listening to this album on death row. That crime landed her in a Florida prison for a year. Less than a decade after Aileen Wuornos was sentenced to death, on October 9, 2002, she received a lethal injection which put an end to her troubled life. Bruce Munster and arresting officer Larry Horzepa in an interrogation room at the Marion County jail. Up until the moment she died she claimed to be monitored by external forces, clearly indicating she suffered from severe mental problems, even though she claimed this wasnt true in a letter: I killed those men, robbed them as cold as ice. Her mother, Diane Wuornos (born 1939), was 15 years old when she married Aileen's father, Leo Dale Pittman (died 1969), on June 3, 1954. Her life as a hitchhiking illegal sex worker had hardened her. Two months before Aileen's birth, Diane and Leo filed for divorce. Her father was a psychopath and child molester who was incarcerated at the time of her birth; he eventually committed suicide. | After her death, Wuornos' body was cremated. On 9 October 2002, she was executed by the state of Florida by lethal injection. Is He White or Black? On January 9, 1991, Aileen Wuornos was arrested at a Port Orange biker bar called The Last Resort. [2][16] Although previous convictions are normally inadmissible in criminal trials, under Florida's Williams Rule, the prosecution was allowed to introduce evidence related to her other crimes to show a pattern of illegal activity. Also known as Susan Blahovec, Lee Blahovec, and Cammie Greene, Wuornos even resorted to co-opting her sister Lori Grody's identity. In truth, Aileen and her brother Keith were the children of Lauri and Britta's daughter Diane. However, there were questions about Pralle's sincerity with claims she was out for the money, especially since Hollywood had come calling with offers for rights to Wuornos' story, even by Wuornos herself later (via the Orlando Sentinel). I've been evaluated so many times. There was physical and sexual abuse in their household, and some sources claimed that Keith and Aileen had an incestuous relationship. Diane Wuornos: Leo Dale Pittman was born on March 16, 1936, in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan United States to his parents Arthur Steward Briggs and Ellen L. Briggs-Westfall (Pittman). The body of a delivery driver named Eugene Burress was found on August 1990. It changed her perception of the world and the way she treated people. Although she was given to flights of paranoid thinking, she was correct on this point. [73] In February 2020, the series Very Scary People was shown on the Crime & Investigation; episodes 3 and 4 describes how the investigation into Wuornos was conducted. Aileen Wuornos did not kill Keith Wuornos, her brother. From their first meeting, they were inseparable. I think she had a lot of awful encounters on the roads. But Pralle's act of kindness was mostly motivated by faith. [10][8] She gave birth to Aileen at the age of 16. She was also a suspect in the theft case of a missing revolver. Ive been evaluated so many times. When she was 6 months old, her teenage mother, Diane Wuornos abandoned her. [76] The antagonist of the 2002 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Chameleon" Maggie Peterson (Sharon Lawrence), a prostitute who murders her johns is based on Wuornos. [63] Ressler, who allegedly coined the phrase "serial killer"[64] to describe murderers seeking personal gratification, does not apply it to women killing in postpartum psychosis[65] or to any murderer acting solely for financial gain, such as women who have killed a series of boarders or spouses.[66]. [57] She was the second woman in Florida and the tenth in the United States to be executed since the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision restoring capital punishment.[58]. They thus spent much of their formative years living with their grandparents. Keith Wuornos grandfather, Lauri, was a physically abusive alcoholic, and there is no doubt that he extended some of his violent tendencies to Keith. There were plenty of factors in Wuornos' early life that influenced her criminal behavior a traumatic childhood and early abandonment among others, as Myers acknowledged in his report. [48], Wuornos was incarcerated at the Florida Department of Corrections Broward Correctional Institution (BCI) death row for women, then transferred to the Florida State Prison for execution. Pittman, bent on controlling his young wife's life, forbade Diane from leaving home while he worked a variety of jobs, ranging from gardening to making chrome car bumpers. [61], Wuornos was also known to have early behavioral problems such as having an explosive temper which limited her ability to make friends, as well as making it increasingly difficult for her to maintain relationships. Keith was her biological brother, son of Diane Wuornos, and like Aileen, he was adopted by their grandparents once their parents were out of the picture, details Sue Russell's "Lethal Intent." She was sentenced to death in 1992 and was executed in 2002. However, life for Aileen and Keith Wuornes in their grandparents' home was anything but ideal. Entitled Wuornos, the opera was written by composer/librettist Carla Lucero, conducted by Mary Chun, and produced by the Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts.[79]. "In the meantime, my stomach's growling away and I'm taking showers through the sink of my cell." This happened on July 14, 1976. At 10:14 a.m. on January 16, 1991, Aileen Wuornos, true to her word to Tyria Moore, met with Sgt. Later in life, Wuornos' skills with a cue would serve her well as a shrewd pool hustler. In 1974, she was arrested for driving under the influence, disorderly conduct, and firing a .22-caliber pistol from a moving vehicle. Aileen Carol Wuornos[3] (/wrnos/; born Pittman; February 29, 1956 October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. Assured that she was not under arrest, Moore explained that Wuornos had told her about killing Richard Mallory. 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